I'm not the only one who saw it
We had a shared vision
Of community
Of common values
And the sense that
All life is sacred
It wasn't just talk
We committed ourselves
To these shared imperatives
And lest we forget
For as long as we have had written history
We have had kings in the world.
For that part of our shared story
We have shared our world
With humans who would not
Fully embrace this, our vision
Structures changed
Kings and colonies died back
But they never did leave us
Some of them tried to blend in
Some more successfully than others